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  <h1 class="Head">General</h1>
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    General settings for the Workbench. The term <i>Workbench</i> refers to the desktop development environment.
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  <p>Each Workbench window contains one or more perspectives. Perspectives contain views and editors and control what
  appears in certain menus and tool bars. More than one Workbench window can exist on the desktop at any given
  time.</p>
  <p class="Para">The following preferences can be changed on the <a class="command-link" href=
  'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workbench)")'>
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      <td><strong>Option</strong></td>
      <td><strong>Description</strong></td>
      <td><strong>Default</strong></td>
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      <td>Always Run in Background</td>
      <td>Turn this option on to perform long running operations in the background without blocking you from doing
      other work.<br></td>
      <td>Off<br></td>
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      <td>Keep Next/Previous Part Dialog Open</td>
      <td>If this option is turned on then the editor and view cycle dialogs will remain open when their activation key
      is let go. Normally the dialog closes as soon as the key combination is release.</td>
      <td>Off</td>
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      <td>Show Heap Status</td>
      <td>Turn this option on to display an indicator showing information about current Java heap usage.<br></td>
      <td>Off<br></td>
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      <td>Initial Maximum Number of Elements Shown in Views</td>
      <td>Specifies the limit for incremental view updates. Package Explorer, Project Explorer, Problems View, Java Outline View and JUnit View will 
          limit the number of initially shown children per parent element.<br/>
          This avoids UI freezes in large viewers, where the limits of the underlying user interface toolkit are hit while trying 
          to render thousands of elements, leading to minute long UI freezes.<br/>Set it to 0 to disabl this feature.</td>
      <td>1000<br></td>
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      <td>Workbench Save Interval</td>
      <td>The field indicates how often the state of the workbench like perspective layouts and open editors is
      automatically saved to disk.<br/>Set it to 0 to disable this feature<br></td>
      <td>5<br></td>
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      <td>Open mode...</td>
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          You can select one of the following methods for opening resources:
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          <li class="Item">Double click - Single clicking on a resource will select it and double clicking on it will
          open it in an editor.</li>
          <li class="Item">Single click (Select on hover) - Hovering the mouse cursor over the resource will select it
          and clicking on it once will open it in an editor.</li>
          <li class="Item">Single click (Open when using arrow keys) - Selecting a resource with the arrow keys will
          open it in an editor.
            <p class="Para"><strong>Note:</strong> Depending on which view has focus, selecting and opening a resource
            may have different behavior.</p>
          </li>
        </ul>
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      <td>Double click</td>
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  <h3 class="related">Related Reference</h3><a href="ref-23.htm">Workbench Window Layout</a>
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